Inserting Links

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Links – to create a link to another page on your website or to an external site – enter the text that you want to serve as a link and highlight it. (You can also select an image you have already inserted in the article). You then click on the insert/edit link icon (it looks like a link of a chain with a green circle).

chainlinkA new window will pop up.

insert_linkFor a link to an external site, such as http://www.nytimes.com – enter the full url into the url field and click insert at the bottom.

For a link to an email address (that will launch the user’s email client such as Outlook), click on the envelope icon and enter the ‘to’ address in the new pop up window. The other fields are optional.

For a link to another article on your website, click on the + sign next to ‘Content’ in the Link Browser section. The menu will expand to show sections, categories and articles. You can then select the article you want to link to, and click insert at the bottom of the pop up window

For a link to a menu item on your website (can be an article, calendar, publications list, etc.), click on the + sign next to ‘Menu’ in the Link Browser section. The menus will expand and you can find the menu item you want to link to, and then click insert at the bottom of the pop up window.

For a link to a docman document (see Uploading and Managing Documents for more information about docman), do not click on the link icon. Instead, click on ‘doclink’ beneath the main editing box of the article. A separate window will open that allows you to select an individual document to link to.

To remove a link from an article, highlight the text or picture that serves as the link, and click on the broken chain link icon.

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To remove a link to a docman document, delete the text that is serving as the link in the article.